I’ve been working for a few years in the field. All the places I worked at were using those two, getting partnerships, certifications, etc.
The ranges of services they offer is quite crazy. Performance monitoring? Here’s a tool. Certificate management? Here’s a tool. DDoS protection? Here’s a tool. All of them integrated and accessible via command line interface.
AWS and Azure built their expertise over decades, and have financial and technical resources that any European company can only dream of.
Those two platforms are just very good at what they do, it will probably be difficult for a European alternative to emerge. The financial investment would need to be substantial, and the European platform wouldn’t probably reach maturity before a few years.
Thoughts?
There’s a bunch of DDoS protection services, Fastly, Cloudflare etc.
Big tech cloud services are a bit expensive so you should have some budget for DevOps folks now. Decide on monitoring and CI/CD for the whole organisation. Spend resources on db admin: backup, performance, migration.
The tricky thing is distributing so you don’t go down if the hosting service goes down. But let’s be honest, even though you can do that in big tech cloud most organisations just stick everything in the same location. Backups are always off-site whether it’s big tech or other hosting.